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Prime  Minister: Namaste      Kanav is from Greater Noida
        friends.  I  extend  a  warm      itself. Arjun and Kanav, we
        welcome to all of you in ‘Mann ki   discussed the Olympiad, but if
        Baat’. How are you all?           both of you tell us something
            Students: We are fine, Sir.   related to your preparation
            Prime  Minister: Well friends,   or any unique experience, our
        through  ‘Mann  ki  Baat’,  the   listeners would like it.
        people are very eager to know         Arjun: Namaste Sir, Jai Hind;
        about your experiences. I will    this is Arjun speaking.
        begin with Aditya and Siddharth.      Prime Minister: Jai Hind
        You are in Pune. First of all, I will   Arjun.
        start with you. Share with us         Arjun: I live  in Delhi,  and
        what you experienced during the   my mother, Mrs. Asha Gupta is
        Olympiad.                         a professor of Physics at Delhi
            Aditya:  I   have    been     University, and my father, Mr.
        interested  in  Maths    since    Amit  Gupta,  is  a Chartered
        childhood.     My                               Accountant.    I
        teacher,       Om                               feel very proud
        Prakash sir, taught                             talking to the
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        me standard 6                                   Prime   Minister,
        Maths    and    he                              and  first  of  all,
        raised my interest                              I would like to
        in Maths. I got an                              give credit for
        opportunity to learn.             my  success  to  my  parents. I
            Prime Minister: What does     feel that when a member of a
        your friend have to say?          family is preparing for such a
            Siddharth:   Sir,  I  am      competition,  it is not only the
        Siddharth, and I am from Pune. I   struggle of that member but
        have just passed Class 12th. This   the hard work of the family as a
        was my second time in IMO. I too   whole.
        was interested in Maths since         Essentially, in our paper, we
        childhood, and when I was in      have   four-and-a-half  hours
               th
        Class 6  with Aditya, Om Prakash   for  3  problems  and  one-and-
        sir trained both of us and helped   a-half hours for 1 problem, so
        us a lot. Now I am going to CMI   we can plan how much time
        for college and pursuing Maths    we have to solve a problem. So,
        and CS.                           we have to work really hard at
            Prime   Minister:  Well,  I   home. We have to spend several
        have been told that Arjun is in   hours on tackling the problems;
        Gandhinagar right now, and        sometimes it may take a day


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